0 important, serious, or related to real facts: --
The documents are the first substantive information obtained by the investigators.
Substantive research on the subject needs to be carried out.
1 having real importance or value: --
substantive talks/negotiations
We therefore discuss signalling models in a number of the substantive contexts of this essay.
The second and third patterns refer to the presence of only one of those two qualities, which indicates a partial achievement of substantive democratization.
Theoretical diversity also matches the substantive diversity of contemporary western politics, which is (despite the editors stated contrary intention) the primary focus of this encyclopedia.
The claim that what counts as following precedent is acting in the way dictated by the rationale is a substantive thesis.
Understanding the transformation in the parties' stance toward civil rights is critically important for both substantive and theoretical reasons.
Finally, transformative state multiculturalism brings substantive diversity and strengthens indigenous critical consciousness.
The book opens with a short introduction and continues with eight chapters organised asymmetrically in three substantive parts.
The lack of difficulty in practice suggests not that substantive constraints are not needed but that they are assumed.
